vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-6872: binutils: out of bounds read in elf_parse_notes function in elf.c file in libbfd library

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 9, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The elf_parse_notes function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment.

Solution

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